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Yeah I’m waiting for my birthday to come around in a month (asked for a Brambleberry gift certificate, so fingers crossed!) so I can order some stearic acid, but for now I’ll see how close I can get without it. I love the cream eyeliner recipe as mascara, but I find it too thick without water activation for eyeliner. Will check that recipe again to see if I can somehow combine the two…
My birthday’s in about a month too! I got Garth Brooks concert tickets😊 Woo hoo!
If no stearic, then maybe up the ewax amount a bit, lower beeswax, and lower candelilla?
Gift certificates were made for people like us.
Perhaps stearic acid with ewax and maybe carnauba if you can’t do beeswax?
Now I’m kind of curious…
I think my next experiment will just be taking 1g of cream eyeliner base and 1g of e-wax and 1/16 tsp of silica microspheres (because they’re pricey and I can’t afford to use 1/8 for each experiment) and seeing how that works.
You are going to end up with a lot of eyeliner and mascara, with all these experiments your doing Sarah!😜 I need to start doing my own experiments to find out what’s going to work for me.
I’m waiting for Belinda to experiment, so I can figure out where to start. Lol Why should both of us suffer with watering eyes…..of course we will, but hey! We will conquer this!
Ok, since my class was cancelled this afternoon, I’m totally going to go home and do a test. I ADORE the cream eyeliner — especially when paired with silia — but it’s just a bit too stiff to try and apply as-is with ease (and I need super-easy application to get my awesome, precise, rockabilly cat-eye that I love to wear) without having some sort of activation method.
SO: I’m going to go home and melt up 1g of cream eyeliner base and 1g of e-wax, add in some silica microspheres and pigment, and see how that applies once it’s cured up.
I think I’m on the right path. Of course, I don’t have any stearic acid currently (but I sure am going to buy some soon, once I get my paycheck next week). That might well be my missing ingredient here. But I’ll keep trying until I can get it!
Just for reference, I’m wearing the cream eyeliner as both eyeliner and mascara. Having a liquid activation method would be ideal but it’s pretty sufficient as-is for both purposes, if just a tad too stiff for easy mascara application.
I’M DETERMINED to figure this out. And you guys are the best help!
I think you’re on the right path too Sarah. The ewax, I would think, would make the cream eyeliner base creamier and a bit more “fluid”.
I pulled out my stearic acid and it feels waxy yet a little powdery when I rub it between my fingers, if that helps give you a mental picture of stearic acid. As I rub my fingertips, I can still feel a bit on them. In lotions, it thickens but doesn’t contribute a “glide-y” feel. You have to really massage the lotion into your skin when you use stearic. I don’t know how that translates for mascara or eyeliner though.
I’m kicking myself so hard right now because as I was mixing up 2g of creamy eyeliner and 2g of e-wax I added an extra pinch of beeswax 🙁 of course I’m wearing the final product now and it just feels very stiff on my eyes. Would have been great if I didn’t add that extra pinch!! :((
Say what now? Mini, did I understand you right?
You took the cream eyeliner base, and added in some silica balls to the actual base.
I’m trying to find a way to prevent the eye liner from making impressions on my brow bone.
Barb, Marie suggested Sarah do that to help it dry quicker once she applies it, I think. I’m on cold meds so my brain is woozy. Where have you been?!?! Oh, yeah, London! How’s the vaca?? Cyn and I are sooo jealous! Hope you’re having a blast and finding some great new ingredients to brag to us about!
Yeah! Cream eyeliner base, e-wax, silica microspheres, and a pinch of beeswax. I could have done half a pinch and that would have been better, but it’s pretty great so far! The only issue I have is opacity. It’s not quite as opaque as the cream eyeliner straight up, seemingly no matter how much pigment I add, but it’s still pretty good. I’m about 95% there I think.
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